Comments on: Creating a new localization for Firefox 3.1

By: Eric Shepherd

Eric Shepherd — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:18:00 +0000

There’s also an article here, on how to maintain a localization once you’ve created it. This is mostly a stub, and could use help from people who know more about this.

https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Maintaining_a_localization_%28Mercurial%29

By: Eric Shepherd

Eric Shepherd — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:08:32 +0000

I’ve converted this into the beginnings of an article here:

https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Creating_a_new_localization_%28Mercurial%29

Please take a look and twiddle as necessary to ensure accuracy and usefulness!

By: Axel Hecht

Axel Hecht — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:45:03 +0000

Ted, each step we’re taking out of that is a review request on you ;-), you wanna be careful what you’re wishing for.

But honestly, the list of files that Ben found is exactly what I needed to actually make some one or two good follow-up patches to get rid of the last remaining pieces.

By: armenzg

armenzg — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:26:06 +0000

This has been beautifully put together, good job!

By: tmielczarek

tmielczarek — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:17:47 +0000

Man, we should take a few steps out of that.

By: Tomer

Tomer — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:15:48 +0000

This will help her to get a quick-start, but sooner or later she will need to figure how to update the translation files, and keep it in sync with the en-US.

She will need to know to ‘hg pull && hg update’ the source files, and use compare-locales in order to get list of changes (which are also available on http://l10n.mozilla.org/dashboard) in case she is already familiar with committing strings to the l10n tree).

By: Axel Hecht

Axel Hecht — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:04:53 +0000

Thanks for testing this new path, and of course for helping out your friend to start the localization. I’ll try to reduce the list of required files further (fennec already does so), but this is a great start to actually document this stuff.